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I was there at the foot of Beale St. when they pulled him out of the water. It was probably the most surreal thing I have ever witnessed. I happened to be downtown that day. I was eating lunch at a restaurant called Cafe Samovar when some guy came in and said he heard that they found Jeff Buckley. We walked down to Beale and then down to the river.
There was a riverboat anchored about 25 feet away ... all the tourists standing there watching as the cops waited for the coroner.
The symbolism is almost perfect.
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